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Tokyo: Japan’s household spending declines for 3rd straight month in Jan

10-Mar-2023 Asia IANS

Spending by households in Japan fell in January from a year earlier, marking the third successive month of decline, the government said in a report on...

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Hong Kong: China to increase defence spending by 7.2%

05-Mar-2023 Asia
IANS

China has set an official economic growth target of "around 5 per cent" for 2023, as it seeks to revive the world's second largest economy...

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Japan’s parliament enacts record $900bn budget for FY22

22-Mar-2022 Asia
IANS

Japan's parliament on Tuesday enacted a record 107.60 trillion yen ($900 billion) budget for fiscal 2022 to cater to ballooning social security and defence costs...

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K’taka woman wins Covid battle after spending 104 days on ventilator

08-Dec-2021 Koppal
IANS

In a miraculous turn of events, a woman, whose lungs were 96 per cent affected by coronavirus, has fully recovered from the infection after spending...

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